Patents Assigned to Engineering
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Patent number: 11999692Abstract: Selective removal of non-aromatic hydrocarbons from a xylene isomerization process for para-xylene production is accomplished using a membrane unit positioned within a xylene recovery loop. The membrane unit may include a one-stage or multi-stage (e.g., two-stage) membrane system and may be configured to separate a membrane unit product stream from a non-aromatics rich stream, which can be removed from the xylene recovery loop. The membrane unit may have a xylene permeance of about 60 gm/m2/hr/psi and a xylene to non-aromatic permeance ratio of about 15.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: ExxonMobil Engineering & Technology CompanyInventors: Bhupender S. Minhas, Jeevan S. Abichandani, Marcus L. H. Van Nuland, Wai Kit Cheng, Chong-Jhoo Wang, Robert G. Tinger
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Patent number: 12002743Abstract: An electronic carrier and a method of manufacturing an electronic carrier are provided. The electronic carrier includes a first interconnection structure and a second interconnection structure. The first interconnection structure includes a first patterned conductive layer having a first pattern density. The second interconnection structure is laminated to the first interconnection structure and includes a second patterned conductive layer having a second pattern density higher than the first pattern density. The first interconnection structure is electrically coupled to the second interconnection structure through a first non-soldering joint between and outside of the first interconnection structure and the second interconnection structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: You-Lung Yen, Bernd Karl Appelt
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Patent number: 12000273Abstract: A method and system are described for communicating within a system, which may be along tubular members and used during gravel pack operations. The method includes constructing a communication network and installing the communication nodes along the gravel pack system. The communication nodes are used to monitor the formation of the gravel pack for voids or gaps during the gravel pack operations. Once the gravel pack is installed, the gravel pack operations may be used for hydrocarbon operations, such as hydrocarbon exploration, hydrocarbon development, and/or hydrocarbon production.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Xiaohua Yi, Steven D. Vande Lune, Michael D. Barry
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Patent number: 12000472Abstract: Provided is a strong and lightweight sprocket. A sprocket according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: attachment holes 20 formed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction; a plurality of sprocket teeth 30 provided to the outer periphery; first openings 40 formed into substantially triangular shapes of which two corners each face an attachment hole 20 and the remaining corner is positioned toward the outer periphery; and second openings 50 that are formed into substantially triangular shapes of which one corner faces an attachment hole 20 and the remaining two corners are positioned toward the outer periphery, and that, with the first openings 40, demarcate first crossbars 70 with which driving force and load reaction force align and second crossbars 80 with which driving force and load reaction force conflict.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: Sunstar Engineering Inc., YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Kubota, Yuya Okuda
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Patent number: 12003367Abstract: Systems and methods for fast vehicular micro cloud formation are disclosed herein. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor and having instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to receive an identifier of the vehicle and determine if the identifier matches the information in stored metadata. If the identifier matches the information in the stored metadata, the vehicle is allowed to join the vehicular micro cloud without performing a standard onboarding procedure. Otherwise, a standard onboarding procedure is performed to allow the vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas
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Patent number: 11999623Abstract: The inventive method for applying a protective graphene coating onto a surface, especially onto a two- or three dimensional artwork or colored surface, comprises the following steps: a) depositing, preferably by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), graphene onto a at least one side of a supporting substrate to produce a graphene/substrate composite including a continuous graphene membrane formed on at least one side of said substrate; b) removing the substrate, or lifting off the graphene from the substrate and c) depositing the graphene membrane onto the surface. A protective graphene coating prepared and deposited by this method provides protection for a surface, especially a two- or three-dimensional artwork or a colored surface, against color degradation, especially fading, yellowing and discoloration due to exposure to UV radiation, dirt, dust, moisture, chemical and/or oxidizing agents.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: Foundation of Research and Technology Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH-ICEHT), Consorzio Interuniversitario Per Lo Sviluppo Dei Sistemi A Grande Interfase (CSGI)Inventors: Costas Galiotis, Piero Baglioni, Giorgos Anagnostopoulos, Maria Giovanna Pastore Carbone, Giovanna Poggi, Konstantinia Papadimitriou, Giorgos Paterakis, Maria Kotsidi, Giorgos Gorgolis
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Patent number: 11999152Abstract: A passive thermal management system and methods of using a thermoresponsive hydrogel coating configured to autonomously switch between a heating state and a cooling state based on ambient temperature. At temperature greater than a lower critical solution temperature of the thermoresponsive hydrogel, the thermoresponsive hydrogel coating becomes solar reflective and has enhanced radiative cooling ability to achieve daytime radiative cooling. At temperatures less than the lower critical solution temperature, the thermoresponsive hydrogel coating becomes transparent to facilitate absorption of solar radiation by sun absorber.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Dajie Xie, Paul Braun
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Patent number: 12002729Abstract: A electronic package and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The electronic package includes an electronic component, a thermal spreading element, and an encapsulant. The electronic component has a first surface. The thermal spreading element is disposed over the electronic component and has a first surface facing the first surface of the electronic component. The encapsulant covers the electronic component and has a first surface closer to the first surface of the thermal spreading element than the first surface of the electronic component.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: You-Lung Yen, Bernd Karl Appelt
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Patent number: 12000410Abstract: A shroud for an air moving device includes a shroud body configured to at least partially surround one or more blades. The shroud body defines an annular cavity and an annular opening. The annular opening faces the one or more blades. The shroud also includes a Helmholtz resonator defined by the annular cavity and the annular opening. The Helmholtz resonator is configured to reflect sound generated by the one or more blades out of the shroud body.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taehwa Lee, Tsuyoshi Nomura, Ercan Mehmet Dede
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Patent number: 12000237Abstract: Bismuth-based alloys comprising at least about 50% by weight bismuth, about 30 to about 35% by weight tin, and about 1.8 to about 2.8% by weight antimony; and an alloy of bismuth and silver comprising about 90 to about 97% by weight bismuth and about 3 to about 9% by weight silver. A plug comprising an alloy of bismuth, tin, and antimony; and a plug comprising an alloy of bismuth and silver. A method of using a plug made from a bismuth-based alloy to seal a well, wherein a length of a well is filled with the molten alloy and the molten alloy is allowed to solidify.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: RAWWATER ENGINEERING LIMITEDInventors: Robert Eden, Joseph Oluleke
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Patent number: 11999976Abstract: Provided are amino acid sequences of ketoreductase polypeptides that are useful for asymmetrically synthesizing chiral alcohol compounds, its preparation process as well as reaction process under industrial-relevant conditions. Also provided are polynucleotide sequences encoding engineered ketoreductase polypeptides, engineered host cells capable of expressing engineered ketoreductase polypeptides, and methods of producing chiral alcohol compounds using engineered ketoreductase polypeptides. Compared to other enzymes, the engineered ketoreductase polypeptides provided by the invention have better catalytic activity and thermal stability, allowing purification of the enzyme solution by heat treatment, which is advantageous for the production of enzymes and the industrial application of enzymatic reactions.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Enzymaster (Ningbo) Bio-Engineering Co., LtdInventors: Haibin Chen, Chuanyang Shang, Baoqin Cai, Marco Bocola, Shumin Shi, Ruimei Hong, Lei Sun, Yong Koy Bong
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Publication number: 20240173996Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printer capable of ensuring the print quality of the inkjet printer, the inkjet printer performing bidirectional printing on a print medium by a multi-path method. In this inkjet printer, a plurality of nozzle rows an inkjet head has are each composed of ink-ejecting path rows that eject ink when printing is performed on the print medium, and no-ink-ejecting path rows that do not eject ink when printing is performed on the print medium. Ink-ejecting path rows each disposed at an end on one side in a sub-scanning direction are located shifted to each other in the sub-scanning direction. Alternately, specific path rows, each of which ejects ink greater in amount than ink ejected by each of the other ink-ejecting path rows in each nozzle row, are located shifted to each other in the sub-scanning direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryo Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20240180035Abstract: A thermoelectric power generation system includes a shell-and-tube heat exchanger configured such that a tube including double tubes of an inner tube and an outer tube is inserted into a shell, and a thermoelectric power generation module inserted into between the inner tube and the outer tube. The thermoelectric power generation module generates thermoelectric power using a temperature difference between a first medium flowing in the inner tube, such as coolant, and a second medium flowing outside the outer tube in the shell, such as excess water vapor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicants: E-ThermoGentek Co., Ltd., KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KAWASAKI THERMAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi UNO, Nao MAJIMA, Michio OKAJIMA, Keiichi OHATA, Shutaro NAMBU, Makoto GODA, Minoru NAKAYASU, Yoma KANEDA, Masamichi SAKAGUCHI, Takahide YANAGIDA, Yusei MAEDA
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Publication number: 20240178158Abstract: A package structure and a manufacturing method are provided. The package structure includes a wiring structure, a first electronic device, a second electronic device, a first underfill, a second underfill and a stiff bonding material. The first electronic device and the second electronic device are disposed on the wiring structure, and are electrically connected to each other through the wiring structure. The first underfill is disposed in a first space between the first electronic device and the wiring structure. The second underfill is disposed in a second space between the second electronic device and the wiring structure. The stiff bonding material is disposed in a central gap between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. The stiff bonding material is different from the first underfill and the second underfill.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Po-Hsien KE, Teck-Chong LEE, Chih-Pin HUNG
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Publication number: 20240175745Abstract: An optical system and a method of manufacturing an optical system are provided. The optical system includes a carrier, a light emitter, a light receiver, a block structure and an encapsulant. The light emitter is disposed on the carrier. The light receiver is disposed on the carrier and physically spaced apart from the light emitter. The light receiver has a light detecting area. The block structure is disposed on the carrier. The encapsulant is disposed on the carrier and covers the light emitter, the light receiver and the block structure. The encapsulant has a recess over the block structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Hsin-Ying HO, Ying-Chung CHEN
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Publication number: 20240175972Abstract: A residual position correction for one or more non-geolocational satellites is formed by observing through signal reception, from a known location, orbital attributes. Using the residual position correction, the actual position of one or more non-geolocational satellites is determined. Upon denial of GNSS data, the angle of reception of a signal from one of the non-geolocational satellites and the actual position of the satellite, accounting for tropospheric refracting and antenna azimuth and elevations adjustments, is used to determine the geolocation of the antenna terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: CALIOLA ENGINEERING, LLCInventors: Peter A. Parker, Thomas R. Halford, Van A. Hovenga, Adam T.C. Wilander
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Publication number: 20240175277Abstract: Disclosed are a load dispersion-type indoor lifting apparatus for a prefabricated steel structure, and a method of installing a prefabricated steel structure by using the same. The load dispersion-type indoor lifting apparatus for a prefabricated steel structure disclosed herein includes a moving cart, a support frame configured to be mounted on the moving cart, a lifting frame configured to be mounted on the support frame, and a plurality of stacker systems configured to lift up the lifting frame while pushing the support frame down.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicants: Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd., FPC Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheon Keu AN, Sung Hwan PARK
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Publication number: 20240174912Abstract: Methods for utilizing and regenerating solvent mixtures for dissolving elemental sulfur within hydrocarbon wells are described herein. One method includes providing a solvent mixture including an elemental sulfur solvent fraction including disulfide compound(s), as well as an odorant fraction including a lactate ester solvent. The method also includes injecting the solvent mixture into a hydrocarbon well such that the elemental sulfur solvent fraction dissolves elemental sulfur deposited on well components, as well as collecting the resulting spent solvent mixture, which includes thiols and residual lactate ester solvent, within a spent solvent separator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: P. Scott NORTHROP, Kevin A. HARNSBERRY
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Patent number: D1029901Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: GnBS ENGINEERING Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang Soon Park, Jongmun Jeong
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Patent number: D1030090Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN NEW INDUSTRIES BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hui Liu, Wanguan Yi, Min Xia
